Not Even Remotely Famous

I was on the set of a commercial yesterday and it boggled my mind that everyone thought that there was someone famous there. People would stop and watch us and assume that it was some movie or tv show and then they’d try and figure out where they had seen that person before. There was no one famous there. Trust me. One guy is on Broadway now and the gaggles were’t even talking about him. But maybe I am naive. Maybe there was someone famous there and I didn’t even know it. This is my normal M.O. when seeing famous people in New York. My #1 response is not,
“Oh there’s Mandy Patinkin walking his dog.” It’s “Oh, there’s a guy who looks like Mandy Patinkin walking his dog. I wonder if he knows he looks like Mandy Patinkin. He probably does. He probably gets that all the time. I mean, he really does look like Mandy Patinkin. How could he not? He should send in his picture to Metro, don’t they do a thing like that in there? I think they do. I should look that up.” And it is at this moment that I realize, wait, that WAS Mandy Patinkin. And he was walking his dog. I bet his dog doesn’t care though.